Registered Midwife

Rotational Registered Midwife

• Permanent part-time or full-time opportunities available 


• Permanent night duty opportunities available


• Box Hill Hospital | Close to public transport 


• Providing Maternity care in Birthing and Postnatal units

Eastern Health

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.

Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

About the role

Registered Midwife opportunities exist within our Birthing suite and Postnatal maternity units at Box Hill Hospital.  Our new facilities along with our exceptional staff warmly welcome women and their families during their pregnancy, birthing and postnatal journey.  At Box Hill Hospital you’ll gain and consolidate knowledge and skills while working in a rotating birthing/postnatal midwife position.  Box Hill Hospital birth more than 2,700 babies each year, and our inpatient and outpatient services for new mums include Specialist Maternity Services, Lactation Support Unit, Women’s Health Physiotherapy, and a Perinatal Mental Health Service.   

Our busy maternity unit has 20 Post-natal beds, 6 Birthing rooms with 2 assessment rooms, a Fetal Assessment Clinic, Antenatal Clinic and a 12 cot Special Care Nursery.  Additionally, we proudly support a Midwifery Group Practice model of care.  We have an innovative, collaborative and supportive maternity team, and with our Learning and Teaching unit and Clinical Midwife Consultants we offer a wide range of online and Face-2-Face learning and up-skilling opportunities. 

About you  

As a Registered Midwife, your skills and experience will include:

• Current valid midwifery registration with AHPRA  


• Highly developed interpersonal and leadership experience


• A strong commitment to high quality care


• The ability to work as part of a diverse team


• Excellent communication and organisational skills

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.  An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

What we offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here:

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities


• Friendly & supportive team


• Flexible working hours


• Salary packaging options


• Career progression in our teaching hospitals

Next Steps

Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.


• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.


• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.


• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.


• Advertising may end before the closing date.


• We do not accept recruitment agency application